Saturday, August 13, 2022

PESSIMISM

I don't think there is a future for humanity. I think we are screwed. There are many of us now who have given up all hope. Emissions of greenhouse gases continue to increase, despite all alarm reports and climate conferences.

Neither politicians nor everyday people are willing to change their way of living. We want cheap gas for our cars, cheap clothes, and cheap utility bills. India, China, and Indonesia plan to build hundreds of new coal-fired power plants. They need lots of cheap electricity because the west has moved their factories to them. And several European countries plan to reopen their closed coal power plants because they don't want to buy natural gas from Russia.

The world is spending more than 2000 billion dollars yearly on defense. And now we are rearming. We need new nuclear arms, robotic systems, and submarines. We have to defend ourselves from each other.

All our political and religious belief systems have been grotesque. Not even modern science has been able to save us. We have now reached the end of the story; we only have a few pages left.

The idea that this global civilization will perish is not morbidly pessimistic. All previous civilizations have perished. Only ruins remain. Also, 99% of all species that have existed here on earth no longer exist. Other species will take over after us, maybe flies or cockroaches. Evolution works like this.